"The first thing to be said about Richard Dawkins's Unweaving the Rainbow, which argues that scientific fact is both intellectually and esthetically more pleasing than pseudoscientific fantasy, is that he is to be congratulated for his courage in attempting it."

"The Devil's Chaplain is a collection of essays that span 25 years of writing on evolution, education, and science versus nonscience. The book is divided into seven sections containing a mixture of pieces of varying lengths covering several themes-- including Darwinism, morality, education, justice, history of science and, of course, religion."

"Richard Dawkins is above all a masterly expositor, a writer who understands the issues so clearly that he forces his readers to understand them too. River Out of Eden displays these virtues to the full, and it maintains his high standards of clarity and excitement. The "river" of the title is the river of DNA

Of his second book, The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection, Richard Dawkins tells CA: "I suppose most authors have one piece of work of which they would say `It doesn't matter if you never read anything else of mine, please at least read this.' For me, it is The Extended Phenotype.